Best Steam / PC Apps & Games — Page 9
Expert-reviewed Steam games for PC, scored out of 10.
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- 01IkarugaIkaruga builds enormous complexity out of one binary mechanic and demands absolute cognitive presence, proving that mec…9.7Outstanding
- 02Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger is a relic of the 16-bit era that still works: its narrative economy and mechanical elegance remain the…9.7Outstanding
- 03Deus ExDecades on, Deus Ex remains the definitive argument for player agency, proving that systems-driven design beats cinemat…9.7Outstanding
Etherborn
Altered MatterEtherborn is hard to recommend to most people: its puzzles lose their bite once the central mechanic clicks, and the philosophical narration is vague ...Mixed6.0Strange Telephone
Adventure gameStrange Telephone takes one excellent idea, a six-digit number that always produces the same world, and builds a short, unsettling pixel-art mystery a...Mixed6.4Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County
Grace Bruxner, Thomas BowkerGrace Bruxner and Thomas Bowker close their trilogy with a cozy comedy that uses a detective story as the setup for its jokes. It won't challenge anyo...Good7.4Jett: The Far Shore
Superbrothers, Pine ScentedJETT: The Far Shore buries some of the best hovercraft flying and strongest atmosphere in recent indie games under slow opening acts, vague goals and ...Mixed5.9Void Crew
Hutlihut GamesFew co-op games make shouting at your friends while the ship burns feel this purposeful. Void Crew has clear crew roles, real combat and a roguelite u...Good7.2Heretic's Fork
9FingerGamesHeretic's Fork turns Hell's HR department into a genuinely clever hybrid of deckbuilding, horde survival and tower defence. Card combos that grow unti...Good7.3Bread & Fred
SandCastles StudioBread & Fred ties two players together in a rage-climber, and the rope is a genuinely clever idea — but brutal fall penalties, a weak solo mode and la...Mixed6.4ÖOO
NamaTakahashi, tiny cactus studio, TsuyomiÖoo removes the jump button, the genre's most basic verb, and replaces it with a body made of explosives. It is one of the smartest puzzle platformers...Outstanding9.4
Monument Valley 3
Adventure gameustwo games finally lets Monument Valley leave the room it was built in. Sailing and reshaping architecture make this the most ambitious game in the t...Good7.5Starseed Pilgrim
Adventure gameStarseed Pilgrim is a bold design experiment from the 2013 indie boom: a seed-planting puzzle-platformer whose hidden rules and generative music add u...Good7.1Tails: The Backbone Preludes
EggnutEggnut's prequel is a tighter, sharper and more humane story than the game it sets up. The writing and the branching dialogue carry it. It is short an...Good7.4Terraformers
Asteroid LabTerraformers turns the fantasy of rebuilding Mars into a tight, turn-based strategy puzzle built to respect your time and reward planning. Runs start ...Good7.5Slipstream
ansdorSlipstream is a disciplined take on the 1980s arcade racer, with drifting and drafting mechanics that go past nostalgia. It's short on long-term goals...Good7.5Wizard with a Gun
Galvanic GamesWizard with a Gun has one of the more inventive hooks in survival crafting: bullets that work like spell components and combine in unpredictable ways....Good7.1Paper Lily - Chapter 1
Leef 6010For a solo-built horror RPG, Paper Lily - Chapter 1 gets the important part right: its puzzles branch in ways that genuinely change the story, and its...Good7.9Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
Adventure gameOxenfree II: Lost Signals has sharp writing, a strong adult lead and a soundtrack that gets under your skin, but it sticks too closely to the origin...Good7.1Heavy Rain
Action gameHeavy Rain is clumsy, melodramatic, and full of plot holes, and it still generates real tension because nobody in it is safe. The Steam port is servic...Good7.0Lovely Planet
quicktequilaLovely Planet looks like a toy but plays like an exam. It's a short, sharp first-person shooter and platformer where slow bullets and instant restarts...Good7.3Hylics
RPG gameHylics is a two-hour, hand-sculpted clay hallucination that uses JRPG structure as an excuse to be very strange. The combat is thin and the game ends ...Good7.5What the Car?
Action gameFunny, inventive and built on constant surprise, What the Car? runs out of steam before it runs out of goodwill. It's short and uneven, and best sui...Good7.5Pinstripe
Adventure gameFor all its flaws, Pinstripe earns its keep as a short, lovely and upsetting story about a father's guilt. Most of its value sits in the art, the musi...Good7.1Hexologic
Education gameHexologic takes a familiar number-sum rule and gets real depth out of it by moving it to a hexagonal grid, and it does so with unusual restraint. It's...Good7.6Monster Prom
Simulation gameMonster Prom is a funny, well-written party game whose competitive dating-sim premise works best with friends on a couch. Its thin strategy and weak s...Good7.2Rusty Lake Paradise
Adventure gameSolid but flawed, Rusty Lake Paradise delivers ten tightly designed chapters, disturbing and beautiful art, and puzzles that reward patience. Its logi...Good7.7
